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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25479

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.303

Title:

Book of hours; use of Rome : in Latin

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1499?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 183 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 96 x 70 (55 x 40) mm bound to 10 cm

Former Owner(s):

Hawkins, Rush C. 1831-1920

Rush Hawkins WIKIDATA

White, William Augustus, 1843-1927

William Augustus White WIKIDATA

Zucchi, Antonio, active 19th century Francis Edwards (Firm)

Francis Edwards, Ltd. WIKIDATA

Middle Hill Rare Books & Manuscripts AB (Stockholm, Sweden) Stephen Butler Rare Books & Manuscripts

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger; place of production based on script and on the inclusion of numerous saints associated with Brescia.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 183 + i (paper) ; I12 II-IX10 X10(-7-10), with loss of text of the Mass of the Virgin) XI-XII10 XIII6 XIV-XIX10 XX10(-1, first leaf a cancelled blank); horizontal catchwords at the end of each quire. Modern pencil foliation in upper margin of each recto, those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 14 lines, bounding and writing lines in plummet.
Script: Written in black and red ink in a southern gothic textualis. Single-line initials rubricated in blue and red with penwork in contrasting colors.
Decoration: Thirteen large historiated initials, most terminating in acanthus leaves, bezants, and scrolled borders with birds, flowers, and animals, as follows: 1. fol.13, The Annunciation, with a full-page gilt architectural border on dark blue ground with gold scrolls. Putti in the upper and lower margins, the latter in front of a mountainous landscape and holding a blank escutcheon. 2...
Binding: Bound in ca. 16th-century red goatskin panelled in gilt. Panels enclose stars and swirling foliage around a central gilt stamp of the Virgin and Child?, now heavily rubbed (front cover) and the Crucifixion (back cover). Two original metal clasps, with straps renewed.
Origin: Created in or around Brescia during the late 15th-century.
Provenance: With one Antonio Zucchi from at least 1844 through 1857. In a note at front, in Italian, Zucchi describes how he discovered the book among his grandmother's belongings; he also records the date of his wife's death (3 October 1857) in a note on the same leaf. On the front pastedown, a 19th-century seller's description, in English, of the present volume, describing it as a missal. In...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in from Stephen Butler Rare Books and Manuscripts in 2025.
Call number: MS q Med.303.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

devotional calendars

illuminations (paintings)

Inscriptions

Books of hours

Massachusetts--Boston

Manuscripts, Italian

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9033661

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/gb19nt31r/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library